Necktie-holder.



D. FORSBERG.

NECKTIE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12. 1911.

Patented June 4, 1918 Parana option.

DANIEL FORSIBERG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NECKTIE-HOLDER.

, Specification of Letters lPatent.

Patented J nne 4, 191 8.

Applicationfiled September 12, 1917. Serial No. 190,914.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL FoRsBERc, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification. 1

The object of this invention is to provide a device of simple and efficient construction and operation upon and by means of which a neck-tie may be readily tied in semblance of an ordinary four-in-hand and securely held in that condition, and the device, together with the thus formed tie, may then be detachably connected to the front collar button in proper relation to the collar of the wearer. Accordingly my invention comprises two hingedly connected members, whereof one constitutes, in effect, a form upon which the necktie is appropriately tied and shaped in semblance of a four-inhand, and whereof the other, cooperating with the form member, constitutes a clamp which is adapted to secure the tie in its tied condition and also to serve as a convenient means for attaching the device and its associated tie to the front collar button of the wearer, as will be hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front view of my improved necktie holder, showing in dot-and-dash lines the position of the necktie when it is initially drawn between the two membersof the holder.

Fig. 2 is a back View of the holder.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the holder, indicating by dotted lines the first step in the operation of forming a four-in-hand thereon.

Figs. 4 and 5 are front views illustrating succeeding steps in the operation of forming the tie on the device.

Fig. 6 is a front view of the completed tie as formed and secured on the device.

Fig. 7 is a rear view thereof.

Referring to the drawings, 1 and 2 designate the respective members of my improved necktie holder, said members being pivotally connected similarly to the leaves of a hinge. The main or form member is of substantially triangular shape, its basal edge being preferably slightly concaved, as at 3, and having a pair of rearwardly-extending spaced and apertured lugs 4. The

other or clamp member of the device is of the general triangular form shown, its basal portion being provided with integral teats or projections 5 which are rotatably seated in the apertures 6 of the lugs 4. The axis of the member 2 is spaced some what from the body of the member 1 and the basal portion of the member 2 is provided with an angularly disposed integral lip 7 preferably toothed or serrated along its free edge, as shown, which lip, by proper movement of the clamp member, may be swung toward or from the back of the member 1 so as to clamp or release, as desired, the tie fabric interposed between the two members. The outer or tip portion of the member 2 is provided with an appropriate slot or opening 8 of sufiicient width and form to receive the stem of a collar button; thus providing a means for ready attachment of the device and its associated tie to the button.

To use the device above described the clamp member is first swung upward, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive. The tie is then folded and passed through the space between the two members so as to form the upstanding loop indicated by the dotted lines a in Fig. 3. This loop is then swung down upon the front of the member 1, as indicated by the dotted lines a in Fig. 8. The depending portion a of the tie is then drawn to one side as indicated in Fig. 4; swung forwardly across the face of the loop a to produce the loop a brought to the back of the member, and passed upwardly between the two members, as indicated in Fig. 5. The ends a of the tie are then swung forwardly; passed down between the loops (1, a of the tie, and drawn. tight, thus presenting the four-in-hand appearance illustrated in Fig. 6. Thereupon the member 2 is forcibly swun downward and the teeth of its clamping 11p 7 are thus caused to engage the tie material and bind it firmly and securely a ainst the member 1, as indicated in Fig. The device, with the tie properly formed and secured thereto as above described, is then slipped under the front of the collar and the slotted lower portion of the clamp member is engaged with the collar button as above mentioned.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my improved device consists of two parts only, which can be struck up from sheet metal and readily hingedly connected, thus. insuring economy of manufacture; and

further, that the device may be easily an quickly manipulated to perform efiicientlyi scribed, comprising a frontmember consti tuting-a former? for a four-in-hand tie and? a rearward member cooperating with the; front member to provide a clamp for the tie, saidrearward member being spaced Copies of this patent may becohtai ned; for five centsieach, by;vacldreasing;atht'L commisslonerpofiiPatents,

member on its axis may be swung across said t space .v and. into clamping or i releasing relation with i the front member, as desired, thereby clamping or. releasing the. interosediendsof the" tie, saidrearwardmember liavingalso means for attachmentto acollarbuttom DANIEL FORSBERG.

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